Origin Japan Running time 1h 33m Years active 1958–1975 Director Steve Martino | Occupation(s) singers, actresses Role 2015 film Genres Japanese pop Name The Peanuts Story by Charles M. Schulz | |
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Born April 1, 1941 ( 1941-04-01 ) Died Emi Ito June 15, 2012(2012-06-15) (aged 71) Initial release October 19, 2015 (San Francisco) Production companies Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation Cast Francesca Capaldi, Bill Melendez, Kristin Chenoweth, Trombone Shorty Similar Peanuts movies, Animation | ||
FURIMUKANAIDE - THE PEANUTS (1962)
The Peanuts (ザ・ピーナッツ, Za Pīnattsu) were a Japanese vocal group consisting of twin sisters Emi Itō (伊藤エミ, Itō Emi) and Yumi Itō (伊藤ユミ, Itō Yumi). They were born in Tokoname, Aichi, (Japan) on April 1, 1941. Soon after the twins' birth, the family moved to Nagoya. Their uniqueness was their being monozygotic twins, with voices only slightly apart in timbre which resulted in their singing together sounding like a solo artist using double tracking or reverb).
Contents
- FURIMUKANAIDE THE PEANUTS 1962
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- Career
- Foreign performances
- Retirement and death
- Discography
- References
2015 the peanuts movie set of 12 mcdonald s happy meal kids toys video review
Career
The twins were discovered while performing at a club in Nagoya in 1958 by pop impresario Sho Watanabe. He brought them to Tokyo and gave them the name The Peanuts. They made their first recording “Kawaii Hana” (“Cute Flower”) in 1959. In their early years they sang Japanese covers of standards, foreign hits, and Japanese folk songs; then they began singing originals, written by their producer, Hiroshi Miyagawa, and such songwriters as Koichi Sugiyama and Rei Nakanishi. They were the first to perform "Koi no Vacance".
Later, the twins embarked on a brief acting career, notably in the 1961 film Mothra, the 1964 film Mothra vs. Godzilla and the 1964 film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. In the audio commentary for the DVD of Mothra vs. Godzilla, it is noted that director Ishiro Honda fondly recalled the Itos' professionalism. Though not primarily actresses by trade, they were surprisingly skilled, learned their lines quickly, and always worked on time, despite their own busy schedules.
Foreign performances
They appeared in America on The Ed Sullivan Show on April 3, 1966, performing "Lover Come Back to Me".
Unusual for Japanese singers at the time, the duo had success in Germany and also Austria. In 1963 Caterina Valente was in Japan where the duo caught her attention. Valente invited them to Germany. On the occasion of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Michael Pfleghar produced the opening ceremonies, where both were also invited, and the musical director Heinz Kiessling produced German-language recordings with them, including "Souvenirs from Tokyo". In 1965, Pfleghar cast them in two other shows "The Smile in the West" and "Schlager-Festspiele." In total, they released eight singles in the German language between 1964 and 1967. In 1965 "Souvenirs from Tokyo" reached No. 18 on the Austrian charts and spent 2 weeks at No. 40 on the German Billboard charts. In 1967 "Bye, Bye Yokohama" spent 4 weeks on the Germany charts, rising to No. 30.
Retirement and death
The pair retired from performing in 1975 after Emi married fellow Nabepro star Kenji Sawada. The duo is remembered most for its versions of European songs and for a handful of Japanese pop songs, such as "Furimukanaide" ("Don't Turn Around").
Emi Itō died on June 15, 2012, at the age of 71. Yumi died on May 18, 2016, at the age of 75.